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This chapter is a guided tour through the most common ways of using SuperEdit . In order to provide you with some drawings to play with, Setup has installed a number of sample documents in the DOC subdirectory. First let’s have a closer look at the two corner stones of SuperEdit : hybrid raster-vector editing and Tessel Composite Documents .
In contrast to large format raster editors that operate directly on a bitmap image of the scanned document, SuperEdit uses a hybrid raster-vector technique that builds on the following:
full resolution scanned documents are kept always as files on the hard disk - the raster data is never loaded to RAM, so it does not compete for the computer resources;
SuperEdit shows views that are calculated on as needed basis according to the current zoom extents and resolution requirements;
nominal parameters like orientation, scale, units, insertion point, are used in order to present the views correctly mapped into world coordinates system;
the DWG, DXF and HPGL vector drawings can be shown as view-only subdocuments;
all raster and vector subdocuments are always registered properly in the same world coordinate system and can be zoomed and scrolled simultaneously using SuperEdit commands or standard MS Windows interface;
SuperEdit provides tools for controlling and editing of raster images, primarily by defining the coordinates system for them and providing tools for clearing selected areas of raster, cut / copy / paste / merge editing, and more advanced operations like resizing, rotating and multi-point calibration of raster images;
SuperEdit provides tools for drafting that may be used to create new lines, symbols, texts and other entities that are kept in TVD drawings; SuperEdit drafting tools may use selective raster snaps; more advanced vectorization is supported by tracing raster lines;
SuperEdit may insert selected vector entities to raster images and rasterize whole vector drawings or composite documents creating new raster images;
both raster and vector drawings can be printed together as one hybrid document using the standard Print command.